Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-03
THE WESTERN SARATOGA.
That is What Will be the Title of
the Great Soda Springs in the
Territory Of Idaho.
The Best Water and the Finest Hotel
in the Northwest, and Practically
at Our Door.

at Our Door.
| SODA SPRINGS, Idaho. July 31.-(Specia
Correspondence of.The Miner. ]-While thif
has been a quiet day here in this pictur
esque and interesting place, great interest
has been added to the hospitable ida
| hona" Hotel which was informally opened
on yesterday, and guests from Salt Lake
Butt. and other points thronged it's spa
cious COZ ridors and enjoyed the cheering
comforts of its roomy and elegantly fur
n;shed apartments. 1t is safe to say that
there is not more elegant, neat and home
like hotel between the Missouri River and
| the Pacific Coast than this. / would il
we're nearer Butte that it's people might
| more generally enjoy it's comforts and i,t
most attractive surroundings. Yet as re-
mote as it is, being some 300 miles distant
there are
QUITE NUMBER OF BUrTEITEs
here. Among item l note Drs: Norcross
and Sarchet, Mr. s. NJ. Nixon and wife, C.
F. Lloyd and daughter. who has been here
for some time: H. c. Hoerichner, M. o
Connor, H. Higgins, w. A. Frazer. Miss
Sampson, a well.knOwn educator OF Hell
ena, is also here enjoying a much needed
vacation. Although salt Lake is quite as
remote a point as Butte, the delegation
from the Saline City is larger, for l noted
the presence of VIM G Bowman. Surveyor
General OF Utah. Miss Jennie Bowman, c.
W. Lyman and familv, E. Rheinstrom.
Mrs. Mcintyre, Miss Kate Worst, j. A.
Goodhue, C. S. Long and others. There
are also guests from Denver. Omaha, Og-
den, st. Louis, New York, Eagle Rock and
nther points, all of whom are enjoying
themselves greatly.
THERE ARE MANY ATTRACTIONS HERE
including the numerous springs, some hot
and some cold, including the 800 Per Cent, "
where the celebrated mineral water is bot.
tied for the trade by the Mathews process,
which takes the water by pipes directly
from the depths of the spring and pumps
it into bottles and corks it without any Dir
rea ching it. Thus the gas from the spring
obviates the necessity OF artficially charg-
ing it. The water from the bottles is i'lenti'
cal in taste and effects on the system az
when drank from the fountain
itself. And this is the advan
tage of this mineral water over
other waters OF a medicinal character.
THE MAMMOTH SPRINGS
are a marvel of nature. They are immense
in volume and wonderful in beauty
| Imagine basin as large as city block
bubbling up mineral water for the healing
OF the nations and you may have some
| . - Thn w, fAr
strongly impregnated with iron that they
are not available for bottling but fol
ba thing they cannot be equa]led. 1h'
| Hooper Springs are OF the same character
but do not flow such a volume OF water al
the Mammoth. AS in the case OF th'
Mammoth, there are number OF SPRING
all of which flow water of a different
quality and varied in taste and healtl
giving properties. None Of these spring
have had anything but a super ficia
analysis, but they are all natures owl
restoratives. l have never seen nature
restorative processes demonstrated IN 81
many forms in the same space OF tn
earth's surface as here.
| ASIDE FROM UTILITY
there are attractions here pleasing to tn
eve. Conspicuous among these are tn
Steamboat Springs, the cave OF petritae
tions, the floating meadows ard othe
things too numerous to mention. Th
Steamboat Springs flow hot and cold waite
within few feet Of each other, the no
spring ven ting stream with a no'se wh'c
led to it's christening. The petrifactions
the cave referred to embody the very es
sesce of artistic beauty magma bic in tn
handiwo ork Of nature and constitute
feature OF this fairy land. The t1oatln
meadows are large plat OF tioatin
grasses and luxur;ant vegetation whlc
float about. the plaything OF the passin
winds on a large and very deep sheet I
translucent water. Hundreds OF acre
are embraced in these meadows, and 1t
a novel sight to see the mass OF vegets
: tion drifting about on this magnifcel
, lake.
AMONG OTHER ATTRACTIONS
are the hunting and fishing. Ii anybod
has lost bear he can find his brnin witt
D in ten miles OF the hotel. And this is
great advantage AS it prevents the sma
l. boy from straying from the camp or 1ro
, reviling the old man. The regular habitu
y OF the place l;ght in RECALLING the gues'
: wi h the experience OF three Missourial
who c. nceved the happy idea OF sendi'
: a brace OF cubs back all the way t" Pix
They caught on to the trail of the who
e bruin ia mily. They found them in bait
array anu sorry spectacle presents
itself when they were brought in on stretc
|ers. One had his scalp drawn dow
o over his face, another had h
n hin chewed into fragments, h
- hand in a sling and the other his vertebr
' dislocated by his very sensible mule, viii
a wrecA ed him to keep him out OF the Way
h tn. bear. Their names are John A. Your
IS G. Lewis and John T. Smith. The tt
e have retire from the bear hunting bu'
u ness, As for fishing Bear river is full
the speckled and sportive trout. So'
Springs is also full of trout. but they car
be fooled with a ly. They are too flip I
~ that. They know the difference between
huckleberry and grasshopper. lett a
u. On q bush which contributed to the lola
i on either side Of Soda Springs creek viii
,e trust every fish will dislocate his cerebl
e, vertebre in trying to c.'tch.
+ BUT TO REVERT TO THE SPRINGS.
would cay that the 100" per cent.
the only one available for bottling p
m poses, It is located within fifty feet OF I
ne bottlng works which have capacity
+ :, 900 per day and is run by ten emplo.
al to the extent of 900. The works are
O charge Of H. Dauhalter. Superintende
~ and Geo. Wiseman as foreman. L
spring is utl ed by the Natural Mine
Company because OF its superior
lici,,al properties and the fact that i
er charged stronger with natural gas tn
,.a any of he others and requires no art'fic
NO pressure in bottling. While no very tn
ne ough chemical analysis has ever been ms
32 OF these waters the following is the rep
nd of Prof. H. b. Hodges, formerly Assista
Professor of chemistry. Harvard Univel
ty, and now chemist to the Union Pac
Railway. This analyst. is compared W
one made by Professor c. F. Chandler.
RS one Uuited States or wine gallon OF
'es inches, there are:
he SODA SPRINGS WATER. BETHESDA.
lily Chloride ofsodium $50 erains.... LEO grt
q. Sulpnate OF Potas a....a trace 10 4o4
Sulphate of S. dium Ia trace '' ......O az
Carbunate of Lime. so. LIB OZ2
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